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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Liquid Gallant

Although seem less aggressive than the other player, Acer
still trying to work in the Android phone market. Taiwanese vendors better
known as PC manufacturers have released its new Android Smartphone, Liquid
Gallant.

Liquid Gallant had a variant called Liquid GallantDuo.
Specifications are both the same. What distinguishes, Gallant Duo can hold two
SIM cards at once.

With low prices and specifications upscale, Xiaomi Phone 2 seem not
pursue profit. To be sure, this strategy makes their shot quickly.

"They have built strong brand awareness., I think, a
year ago no one thought they could do a great job like this," said Nicola
Peng, an analyst at Canalys quoted from PCWorld, Thursday (23/08/2012).

Xiaomi Phone 2 founded in 2010 by former employees of Microsoft,
Google and Motorola are based in China. Xiaomi market share today is still 5%,
far enough away from the market leader in China, the Samsung with a market
share of 17%. However, the consistency of quality cheap handsets they sell a
threat of its own.

Facebook is reported to have made ​​a new policy requiring
all employees to use the gadget with the Android operating system. This policy
is applied to the Facebook application on Android can be as good as on the
iPhone and iPad apps.

Pocketnow report quoted officials revealed that the majority
of Facebook is now using two handsets. One of Apple products, other gadgets
with Android OS.

From the statements of former employees who knew what was
up, the use of two handsets was not an option given, but an obligation. They
said, this policy is because there are many flaws in the Facebook application
for Android.

Now, with the obligation to use your Android device, it is
expected that all employees of Facebook can tell from experience if there is
weakness in Android applications. So, Facebook can directly provide a solution
to overcome the disturbance.

As quoted from Mashable, Saturday (08/26/2012), Facebook has
recently released the latest update for Android app followed for iPhone and
iPad update shortly thereafter.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Blinxbox

One more interesting application for users who may make the
user Instagram IOS bite the finger because it is only available for Android
devices, the application BlinxBox. BlinxBox application can display photos
stored on the user's account Instagram Android home screen as a widget.

Instagram BlinxBox will display your feeds and will
automatically update the latest photos contained in Instagram users. Of the
Android home screen, you can instantly share photos Instagram to Facebook, read
comments or to label Love.

In order to enable applications BlinxBox on Android devices,
you do not have to install Instagram for Android first. You simply install the
application BlinxBox and authorize to access your Instagram account, and then
an instant later, you will find BlinxBox widget in Android home screen with
photos of your collection in Instagram is there.

You can set up a way to tap on the icon BlinxBox. You can
make settings such as select a ringtone or vibration when new photos are added
as well as notification settings when your Android device screen is locked.

BlinxBox available free on Google's Android Play Store and
requires version 2.2 or later to run.

Friday, August 10, 2012

musiXmatch

Nice to sing but do not memorize the lyrics? Do not worry,
musiXmatch will help you. musiXmatch is the application of a combination of
player and song lyrics that provide more than 6 million songs in 20 languages
​​included in the official catalog. No wonder musiXmatch become one of the applications
in the Google Top Play Music Store for the category.

It combines the application of artificial musiXmatch music
player along with the lyrics. In addition, you can search songs or singers just
by typing a fragment of poetry that you remember. Easy is not it? It could be
argued that the features provided by the application of 7.1Mb in size as very
comprehensive. Among them are:

1. Search for songs by title, singer, album or song snippets
instantly.

2. Combining the lyrics into your favorite songs on the
music player.

3. Share snippets of song lyrics with ease to various social
networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

4. Just one click to see artist discography singer

5. Lyrics can be explored offline.

Besides the features mentioned above, there are many other
features that are not less interesting that we can enjoy with this application.
Amazingly musiXmatch application has support a variety of other music players
such as Winamp, PowerAmp, Default Android Music Player, Rhapsody Android Beta,
Zimly, Google Music and others.

This application has been downloaded more than 1 million
times since its launch. Has a rating of 4.4/5.0 from 30 thousand more
appraisers, this application is feasible for you to plug in your android
gadget. With the relatively small size, free application is claimed as an
application with the song lyrics of the world's largest amount of data you can
access them offline. Whatever music player you use, musiXmatch will add the
lyrics.

Lyrics and music download applications from Google
musiXmatch Play Store here.